Lacan and Cassirer

An Essay on Symbolisation

Antoine Mooij (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

264 Seiten

2018
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-37342-6 (ISBN)

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The theories on symbolization of the Neo-Kantian philosopher Ernst Cassirer and the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan are described and compared. Their common conception of man as an animal symbolicum has been applied to a number of topics within the humanities (language, ethics, mental disorder) to offer proof for its fruitfulness.

The Neo-Kantian philosopher Cassirer and the psychoanalyst Lacan are two key figures in the so-called medial turn in philosophy: the notion that any form of access to reality is mediated by symbols (images, words, signifiers). This explains why the theories of both philosophers merit a description in their own unique idioms, as well as having their respective basic tenets compared. It will be argued that, rather surprisingly, these tenets turn out be complementary - actually correcting each other – based on their shared notion of man as an animal symbolicum. Its fruitfulness will be substantiated for a limited number of topics within the humanities: perception, language, politics and ethics, and mental disorder, all to be considered from this perspective.

Antoine Mooij, Ph.D (1975), is Professor Emeritus of Law and Psychiatry, Utrecht University. He has published on Lacanian psychoanalysis, hermeneutics, and hermeneutical psychiatry. Among his books are Intentionality, Desire, Responsibility. A Study in Phenomenology, Psychoanalysis and Law (Brill, 2010) and Psychiatry as a Human Science. Phenomenological, Hermeneutical and Lacanian Perspectives (Rodopi, 2012).

Introduction

1 An Outline of the Human Condition

1.1 Three Levels of the Human Condition: From Intentionality to Structure

1.2 Three Types of Hermeneutics: From Signification to Signifier

1.3 Three Levels of the Human Condition Revisited

1.4 Application in Psychopathology

1.5An Inquiry into Possibility: The Capacity to Symbolise

2 Cassirer

2.1 A Return to Kant

2.2 Cassirer’s Ambition

2.3 Cassirer and Heidegger

2.4 The Mind and Critical Idealism

2.5 The Concept of a Symbolic Form

2.6 Myth and Religion, Language, Science

2.7 Symbolisation: Three Sources and Three Modes

2.8 A Symbolic Form in the Making?

3 Lacan

3.1 A Return to Freud

3.2 The Autonomy of the Symbolic Order

3.3 The Dialectics of Desire

3.4 Differential Character of the Language Sign

3.5 Symbolic Identification

3.6 The Real: Three Domains, Three Forms

3.7 The Later Lacan

3.8 Joyce and Lacan

3.9 Substance or Function

3.10 Lacan and Cassirer Juxtaposed

3.11 Lacan and Cassirer Put into a Mutual Relationship

4 Variations on the Theme of Symbolisation

4.1 The Human Condition and the Symbolic Function

4.2 The Medial Turn and Its Philosophy

4.3 Symbolisation in Perception

4.4 Homo Symbolicus: An Evolutionary Perspective

4.5 The Symbolic Order from A Normative Perspective: Politics, Law, Ethics

4.6 Shades of Symbolisation: The Psychic Disorder

4.7 One and the Same Theme?

Bibliography

Annex: Diagram of the Symbolising Process

Index of Names

Index of Subjects

Erscheinungsdatum	25.09.2018
Reihe/Serie	Philosophy and Psychology ; 321
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	418 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
ISBN-10	90-04-37342-X / 900437342X
ISBN-13	978-90-04-37342-6 / 9789004373426
Zustand	Neuware